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Keywords

  • Future of Work
  • Location: Berlin
  • Made in Germany
  • Next Gen: Universität der Künste Berlin
  • Topic: Refugees
  • Young Talent
  • achtung berlin – new berlin film award
  • Berlin
  • immigration
  • migration
  • refugees
  • work

Actors

  • Jonathan Aikins
  • Para Kiala
  • Frank Leo Schröder
  • Antonia Cojaniz

Director

  • Cavo Kernich

Drama


31min


16+

EN


DE

Germany
2017
Trailer undefined

A slice of the live of the undocumented migrant Mikel, working odd jobs in Berlin to survive.

A slice of the live of the undocumented migrant Mikel, working odd jobs in Berlin to survive.


MIKEL is a young man from Nigeria, living and working as an undocumented immigrant in Berlin. Due to his (il-)legal residency status, he finds himself as a nomad stuck in permanent transit.


As an illegal refugee, he works for Norbert’s renovation company. Norbert, a German, promises him a residency permit and fair pay. In gentrified Berlin, Mikel lives the life of a nomad. But his awareness of the exploitation becomes increasing difficult to justify with his own self-esteem. Without really knowing where he is going, he takes off in search of an alternative.

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